Patrick Henry Quotes
It is hard to deal with someone who smiles and pretends to like you to your face and sticks that eight inch blade in your back when you turn around.
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I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and I was quite popular there as a disk jockey.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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I love researching, I love interviewing.
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I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world.
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My dad's not a big talker.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
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One experiments and has to choose always the best results.
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My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn't end up in her position.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.
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Here's the thing about Apple technology: once you own a piece, you want to use it.
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Many support what I am doing.
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Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers.
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I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins on stories or propaganda. Maybe an ability to think for yourself.
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It's the first movie I feel really proud of. But I know it's not a movie for everyone. Some people will embrace it, but some people will hate it, and I'm not really sure how to deal with that. In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
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The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.
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Learn a lot about the world and finish things, even if it is just a short story. Finish it before you start something else. Finish it before you start rewriting it. That's really important.
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...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.
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I try to be careful not to do single concerts where I fly out, do my show, turn around and go home.
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I'm not really interested in making money. That's always come as the result of success, but it's not been my goal.
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The job of the evangelist is never easy.
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It is hard to deal with someone who smiles and pretends to like you to your face and sticks that eight inch blade in your back when you turn around.
